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I mentioned the too-large salwar I'd gotten via eBay to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
adrian_turtle, who suggested that I could improvise something with safety pins. That worked, more or less, so I put the kameez part of that salwar kameez on. The sleeves were too tight around, and the tight bits were made of a scratchy fabric. Not good. I tried to take it off. It didn't cooperate: the bodice was also snug, and there just was no give, and I was home alone. I contemplated going out anyway. Then I contemplated what being scratched at for a couple of hours would do to my mood, and thus to my planned afternoon with roadnotes. After briefly considering tucking a t-shirt in my bag and hoping she could lift it the salwar off over my head, I concluded that this seemed unlikely and not worth the trouble.
How would you remove a too-small tunic-style shirt (with no buttons, zippers, or other fasteners) while home alone?
Do you know how long it takes to cut through enough of the fabric of a too-snug kameez to remove it, using a pair of scissors, while you have a somewhat sore shoulder? Long enough to make me late for my rendezvous with my best friend, that's how long. Also, given the tools to hand and the difficult logistics, I didn't even try to neatly undo the seam: I cut the fabric. This means it's likely not returnable, though it might not have been anyway.
Nonetheless, I intend to write to the vendor, bassant bahaar, and complain: the combination of the pants being too big at the waist and too short, and the top being too tight at the sleeves and chest, leaves me very unhappy. The whole point of getting the outfit made to order via eBay was to avoid this sort of thing.
In the meantime, I have another salwar kameez, the one from indiashop1, a seller recommended bytnh, to try. But I'm trying it on when cattitude is home.
[I also need to call Land's End about jeans and pockets; Cattitude has suggested I ask if they make anything in this cut that does have decent-sized pockets that I can exchange these for, instead of just getting my money back. Failing that, I will ask L.L. Bean about the size of their pockets.] Add that to tomorrow's list of phone calls; I'm going to try to minimize physical exertion, still being a bit tired from yesterday, but telephone calls should be okay.]
adrian_turtle, who suggested that I could improvise something with safety pins. That worked, more or less, so I put the kameez part of that salwar kameez on. The sleeves were too tight around, and the tight bits were made of a scratchy fabric. Not good. I tried to take it off. It didn't cooperate: the bodice was also snug, and there just was no give, and I was home alone. I contemplated going out anyway. Then I contemplated what being scratched at for a couple of hours would do to my mood, and thus to my planned afternoon with roadnotes. After briefly considering tucking a t-shirt in my bag and hoping she could lift it the salwar off over my head, I concluded that this seemed unlikely and not worth the trouble.How would you remove a too-small tunic-style shirt (with no buttons, zippers, or other fasteners) while home alone?
Do you know how long it takes to cut through enough of the fabric of a too-snug kameez to remove it, using a pair of scissors, while you have a somewhat sore shoulder? Long enough to make me late for my rendezvous with my best friend, that's how long. Also, given the tools to hand and the difficult logistics, I didn't even try to neatly undo the seam: I cut the fabric. This means it's likely not returnable, though it might not have been anyway.
Nonetheless, I intend to write to the vendor, bassant bahaar, and complain: the combination of the pants being too big at the waist and too short, and the top being too tight at the sleeves and chest, leaves me very unhappy. The whole point of getting the outfit made to order via eBay was to avoid this sort of thing.
In the meantime, I have another salwar kameez, the one from indiashop1, a seller recommended by
tnh, to try. But I'm trying it on when cattitude is home.[I also need to call Land's End about jeans and pockets; Cattitude has suggested I ask if they make anything in this cut that does have decent-sized pockets that I can exchange these for, instead of just getting my money back. Failing that, I will ask L.L. Bean about the size of their pockets.] Add that to tomorrow's list of phone calls; I'm going to try to minimize physical exertion, still being a bit tired from yesterday, but telephone calls should be okay.]
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Two things occur, however: first, they have no negative feedback on eBay, which makes me hopeful that they would accept a return and make a refund.
Second: I just don't understand how it's possible for the salwar to be too big in the waist. They're drawstring-waisted trousers, yes? The waist is always made much larger than your actual waist, and then adjusted with the drawstring. I've had one salwar come with the drawstring not pre-inserted (the one that was also too small and badly constructed; a dealer I'll not use again), so that I had to find a safety pin to use as a bodkin to pull the thing through myself, but once that's done, almost any amount of excess fabric in the waist should gather up once you tighten the drawstring.
The business about being too tight in the arms and bust, however, is familiar since that was the trouble with the one kamiz I was unhappy with. In my case, this was despite having provided both a biceps measurement and an accurate bust measurement, which made it especially annoying, since the previous two tailors had managed okay with the same information.
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I'll post an update after I write to them about this.
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And how annoying! I've never had luck with made-to-measure garments, but that sounds beyond luck.